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Rumor Of Tressel Leaving Ohio State After Sugar Bowl???

  • Big Gain
    WebFire;613282 wrote:Isn't next year the last year that Tressel claimed he would coach anyway?

    No, this is the year Tressel had his contract reworked to run to his 62nd birthday.
  • september63
    jordo212000;613358 wrote:What exactly has Spiels done that warrants him getting any kind of consideration? He flopped in the arena league and other than that, he refuses to do what everybody else does (work their way up through the ranks).

    This is Ohio State we're talking about, not OU. You just don't hire somebody with no sort of resume to go off of. The Ohio State job pretty much has a pre-req of being successful elsewhere as a head coach.

    I would have a major problem if they hired Speils as/is. (No coaching/head coaching experience at the college level).




    Love Spielman. But This!!
  • september63
    gerb131;613356 wrote:I would only be cool with that if Spiels was to take over.

    We all love Chris Spielman. Head Coach? NEVER!!
  • jhay78
    5 guys selling stuff, getting suspended, and making the program look bad: no big deal.

    JT leaving: begin to panic.
  • Fab1b
    He ain't leaving!
  • captvern
    I hope that he isnt leaving but I dont know
  • gerb131
    september63;613360 wrote:Love Spielman. But This!!

    I do to but I was kinda being sarcastic. I wish Chris would have gone up the ranks so to speak...I think he could have been a tremendous leader.
  • LJ
    Director of Athletic Communications has said that the report is work of some prankster.

    Blogger has turned off commenting on the blog
  • krambman
    Skyhook79;613337 wrote:No the only thing I can remember him claiming was in 2001 at St John Arena at halftime of the basketball game that everyone here would be proud of the football team in 310 days in Ann arbor michigan.

    Well played.
    WebFire;613334 wrote:Ok. For some reason I thought he said 10 years or something and he was retiring. Maybe it's at the end of the contract.

    To the best of my knowledge he never said anything like that, although he has said several times that he doesn't plan on coaching forever. He's never said for sure when he's retiring, but most assume after this most recent contract extension that we will retire when the contract is up.
  • athlete37
    Crap, wish this had started during the semester. The Civil Procedure prof I had is in constant communication with Gene Smith. GS has called him several times in class...
  • dwccrew
    WebFire;613334 wrote:Ok. For some reason I thought he said 10 years or something and he was retiring. Maybe it's at the end of the contract.

    I'll bet many UM fans are hoping this were the case. ;)
  • Trueblue23
    I just can't see this happening.

    Only way it's possibly true is if OSU has BIG problems that we don't know about yet, ala USC... but still, Tress is probably the classiest coach in the nation, I don't see him jumping off a sinking ship like Pete Carrol did.
  • Blanket
    I just got home and had a text from a friend about this and among the things it said was that recruits have been told he is leaving and can look at other schools.

    I dont believe there is anything to this, but this would be a major shocker if it would happen.
  • vball10set
    gerb131;613356 wrote:I would only be cool with that if Spiels was to take over.



    I don't think Spielman has coached any team beyond Pop Warner..if he has any aspirations of being the big dog at OSU (which I highly doubt he does), he better get his resume out to colleges pretty darn quick and get some coaching experience at this level. That being said, I'd love to see Coach Tressel stay another year or two, which is just about enough time for Urban Meyer's competitive juices to get flowing again--then who knows??
  • vball10set
    Blanket;613535 wrote:I just got home and had a text from a friend about this and among the things it said was that recruits have been told he is leaving and can look at other schools.

    I dont believe there is anything to this, but this would be a major shocker if it would happen.

    who's your friend, and what position that is relevant to OSU football does he hold that would enable him to text you a message containing this information?
  • Scarlet_Buckeye
    vball10set;613539 wrote:who's your friend, and what position that is relevant to OSU football does he hold that would enable him to text you a message containing this information?

    I duno, but I received the exact same text from two of my friends as well.
  • Terry_Tate
    vball10set;613539 wrote:who's your friend, and what position that is relevant to OSU football does he hold that would enable him to text you a message containing this information?

    It says that in the original article about Tressel leaving.
  • se-alum
    Again...not true!! Gene Smith via Twitter:
    Merry Xmas everyone!! Go back to drinking your eggnog!! Rumors not true.. First NBA game I watched this year!!
  • Tiernan
    I find it disturbing that Gene Smith twitters.
  • LJ
    Blanket;613535 wrote:I just got home and had a text from a friend about this and among the things it said was that recruits have been told he is leaving and can look at other schools.

    I dont believe there is anything to this, but this would be a major shocker if it would happen.

    Recruits can look at other schools anyways. They are only bound when they sign their LOI, which doesn't happen until Feb
  • vball10set
    http://ohiostate.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1169145
  • bases_loaded
    Guys isn't it obvious? Tress is gone, Urb is coming. Shazier decommits from UF and rumors of Ju'Juan Story following him. You heard it here first...I need to start a twitter account so I get credit for all of this...
  • georgemc80
    Only thing I ever heard about JT calling a career, was when he deflected questions about the Tennessee game in 2017 (?) by saying that some other coach will be dealing with that.
  • devil1197
    Highly unlikely that Tressel would suddenly leave the program. He is one of very few coaches that have too much respect and dignity to just bail out of nowhere.

    When we start hearing rumblings from Gene Smith and others then I'll be worried, not some blogger.

    If he does leave, I'd be willing to bet that we would be able to land a high profile guy.
  • KnightRyder
    devil1197;613749 wrote:Highly unlikely that Tressel would suddenly leave the program. He is one of very few coaches that have too much respect and dignity to just bail out of nowhere.

    When we start hearing rumblings from Gene Smith and others then I'll be worried, not some blogger.

    If he does leave, I'd be willing to bet that we would be able to land a high profile guy.

    how is the weather in glendale?